Cassie Orgeles

Cassie Orgeles began playing goalball at the age of seven and rose to the elite level in 2010. She has always loved the feeling of playing as a team, especially the complete faith you put in your teammates. One of her biggest challenges and greatest achievements was gaining a spot on the national team.

The 2011 IBSA World Championships and Games were her next big challenge – the Canadian women won the event, earning a berth at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Canada came fifth in London.

Sport, especially goalball, embodies the meaning of teamwork to Orgeles. Her goalball coaches from her high school team, Tracy MacPhee and Bob Mannen, have been very influential people to her thus far in her sport career.

Orgeles and her team placed fourth at the 2010 Goalball World Championship and captured bronze at the 2011 Parapan American Games in Guadalajara. She has also received the Wayne Gretzky Award for Sportsmanship.

Personal

Born with optic nerve hypoplasia and is legally blind… Born in Honolulu, her family moved to Fort Erie shortly after her birth... When she was five, she started attending the W. Ross Macdonald School in Brantford for the blind…